11Minutes of the Provincial Commissioners, 20 July 1764 (Franklin Papers)
That Robert Callender be the victualler for the three western Companies save those in Fort Augusta who are victualled by the Crown, and that Robert Levers victual the other three companies to the eastward....Pa., had at one time been associated with Croghan & Trent. Robert Levers (d. 1788) had been a clerk in Richard Peters” office before going to Northampton Co. He kept a store and inn at...
12[January 1766] (Adams Papers)
A Clock also has a Constitution, i.e. a certain Combination of Weights, Springs, Wheels and Levers, calculated for certain Uses and Ends. This Use and End is the Mensuration of Time. Now the same Reasoning may be employed with equal Propriety, concerning a Clock as concerning the human Body. The Constitution of a...
13Saturday. Jany. 18th. 1766. (Adams Papers)
A Clock also has a Constitution, i.e. a certain Combination of Weights, Springs, Wheels and Levers, calculated for certain Uses and Ends. This Use and End is the Mensuration of Time. Now the same Reasoning may be employed with equal Propriety, concerning a Clock as concerning the human Body. The Constitution of a...
14III. The Earl of Clarendon to William Pym, 27 January 1766 (Adams Papers)
Similar observations may be made with equal propriety concerning every kind of machinery. A clock has also a constitution, that is a certain combination of weights, wheels and levers, calculated for a certain use and end, the mensuration of time. Now the constitution of a clock, does not imply such a perfect constructure of movement as shall never go too fast or too slow, as shall...
15To Benjamin Franklin from William Franklin, 2 March 1769 (Franklin Papers)
...a Gudgeon like that of a Wheelbarrow, whereby the Friction is much less than in the common Way; but I think if [I can] contrive a Method of fixing the Screw, so that I can turn it with Levers, I shall be able to exert a much greater Force. Had I your Genius for Mechanics I should not doubt of Success. I likewise want a good Hand-Mill, and should be glad to know whether any of...
16From Benjamin Franklin to Noble Wimberly Jones, 3–8 August 1772 (Franklin Papers)
...headnote on the previous document. The Bedfordites had long been hoping to get rid of the American Secretary (and through him, it was thought, of Lord North himself), and had used as their lever the Walpole Company’s petition for a land grant. On July 1 Hillsborough had sustained a major defeat when the Committee on Plantations of the Privy Council had overruled the Board of Trade, of...
Priest 30 Jany. 1771. took lever out of Prescotts Gate, and tossed it into the Stream. The Gate shut down. Knows Possession 8 years. Dam broke but cant say, who broke it. A Lever, Joel kicked off into the Stream. Joel came into Mill without leave, and shut down the Gate.
18To Benjamin Franklin from Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, 15 April 1773 (Franklin Papers)
...de leurs forces fait cesser en elles tout mouvement vital, la vie cesse, et on peut dire qu’elle est éteinte; mais peut-on dire que le corps soit encore mort, s’il reste quelque possibilité de lever l’obstacle fatal, et de redonner une impulsion à des organes bien disposés, et qui semblent n’attendre autre chose? N’en est-il pas de l’homme réduit en cet état comme d’une bougie nouvellement...
19Silas Deane to Robert Morris and the Committee of Secret Correspondence, 23 June 1776 (Franklin Papers)
(1936–37), 248–54. Deane, just before leaving Bordeaux, gave the letters to Jay and Morris to a Capt. Leavey (he also appears as Lever or Leviz), who arrived in New Bedford on Sept. 5. The letters were forwarded to Washington, and by him to Philadelphia, together with one from the General that was read in Congress on Sept. 13.
20To John Jay from Silas Deane, 3 December 1776 (Jay Papers)
...by Massachusetts delegates en route to the Continental Congress. Arnold, who moved to Huntington, Long Island, during the Revolution, sold the collection to Loyalist governor William Tryon of New York. It was subsequently incorporated into Sir Ashton Lever’s museum in London, where Adams again saw it in 1783. Lever’s entire collection was dispersed by auction in 1806.